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A man reads an article about drug lord Joaquin Guzman, aka "El Chapo", showing a picture of him (R) and US actor Sean Penn, on the website of Rolling Stone magazine, in Mexico City, on January 10, 2016.

In the wake of his highly controversial interview with Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Sean Penn is speaking out on 60 Minutes, saying, "my article has failed."

Back in early October, Penn secretly met with then-fugitive El Chapo in Mexico for an exclusive Rolling Stone interview that was published January 9, the day after El Chapo was re-captured by Mexican authorities. However, what was meant to underscore the U.S.’s flaws in its War on Drugs has turned into a legal and ethical disaster. It’s unlikely Penn will face charges for concealing a fugitive, but he could be subpoenaed or called in for questioning by U.S. or Mexican investigators.

But it seems Penn isn’t so much concerned with dealing with the authorities as he is with how the dialogue around the conversation he was attempting to spark has shifted. In an excerpt from an upcoming interview with Charlie Rose on 60 Minutes, Penn explains his intention for the article and debunks a few theories:

"There is this myth about the visit that we made, my colleagues and I, with El Chapo that it was, as the attorney general in Mexico is quoted 'essential to his capture'—we had met with him many week earlier…in a place nowhere near where he was captured."

"This is somebody upon whose interview could I begin a conversation about the policy of the War on Drugs—that was my simple idea…I have terrible regret. I have a regret that the entire discussion about this article ignores its purpose which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy on the War on Drugs."

Penn’s full interview on 60 Minutes airs Sunday on CBS.

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